A _Snake_ and a _Crab_.
There was a Familiarity Contracted betwixt a _Snake_ and a _Crab_. The
_Crab_ was a plain dealing Creature, that advis’d his Companion to give
over Shuffling and Doubling, and to Practice Good Faith. The _Snake_ went
on in his Old Way: So that the _Crab_ finding that he would not mend his
Manners, set upon him in his Sleep, and Strangled him; and then looking
upon him as he lay Dead at his Length: This had never befall’n ye, says
he, if You had but Liv’d as Straight as You Dy’d.
The MORAL.
_There’s Nothing more Agreeable in Conversation, then a Franke Open way
of Dealing, and a Simplicity of Manners._